The New York Yankees have been eliminated from the postseason. While the Yankees and Red Sox played fairly evenly when matched up head-to-head during the regular season, the eight games separating them in the standings[…]

The excellent new book A Franchise on the Rise: The First Twenty Years of the New York Yankees (2018, Sports Publishing, 308 pps, $27.99) tells the story of the pre-Ruth Yankees (then, mostly “Highlanders”). See my reviews[…]

Back in 1996, the City of New York had two rookie shortstops which excited their respective fanbases – Rey Ordonez and Derek Jeter. Because narratives and comparisons tend to be lazy, both shortstops were compared[…]

Cliff Mapes won’t go down in the annals of Yankees history as one of the franchise’s all-time greats. A mostly platoon outfielder over parts of four seasons with the club between 1948-1951, the Oklahoma native[…]

Unless your name is Mike Trout or Bryce Harper, you’d be hard-pressed to argue there is a better baseball player right now than Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius. Yes, Gregorius. Through the first 22 games of[…]

With the Yankees coming within a game of the World Series last year, and the team adding Giancarlo Stanton to an already potent lineup, there was justifiable excitement about the 2018 Yankees season. That enthusiasm[…]

There are a million and one excuses for the Yankees’ sluggish start. It doesn’t help that Greg Bird, Brandon Drury, CC Sabathia, Jacoby Ellsbury, and, up until today, Aaron Hicks have been on the disabled[…]